“The Comeback” — which premiered on HBO in 2005, returned for Season 2 in 2014 and is now shooting its third season — has found its Season 3 cast.
Tim Bagley, Matt Cook, Jack O’Brien and Ella Stiller will star in the comedy’s newest (and apparent “final”) season alongside series co-creator Lisa Kudrow, who reprises her role as actress Valerie Cherish. Details about the new characters have yet to be announced.
Bagley, a character actor whose projects have included “Will & Grace” and “Grace and Frankie,” is represented by Artists & Representatives and Framework Entertainment. Cook, whose credits include “Clipped” on TBS and “Man With a Plan” on CBS, is represented by Michelle Jannone, Innovative Artists, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark. O’Brien, best known as a theater director with credits including “The Full Monty” and “Hairspray,” is represented by CAA. Stiller, daughter of Ben Stiller with credits including “And Just Like That” and “Happy Gilmore 2,” is represented by Strand Entertainment and Buchwald.
Besides Kudrow, the returning cast also includes Dan Bucatinsky as Billy Stanton, Valerie’s publicist; Laura Silverman as Jane Benson, producer of Valerie’s reality show; and Damian Young as Valerie’s husband, Mark Berman.
Kudrow created “The Comeback” with Michael Patrick King. Both serve as executive producers alongside Bucatinsky and John Melfi.
In 2023, Variety named “The Comeback” to its list of the 100 greatest TV shows of all time, and in 2024, Kudrow’s turn in the series made our list of the 100 greatest TV performances of the 21st century.